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attempted to land their troops; I concluded the ships in sight were those of which he had given me intelligence, and made all the sail possible to get from them. At sunrise my suspicions were realized; we clearly distinguished four of them to be of the line, the other a large frigate, and their signal flags soon pointed them out to be ene mies. At half-past five, two of the line of battle ships tacked by sig nal, and stood on till they fetched into our wake, while the other two and the frigate stood upon the same tack with us. At eight o'clock the 1wo ships and frigate having forereached considerably on us, tacked and stood towards us until they got on our lee quarter, when they tacked again. From their great superiority of sailing, they closed with us so fast as to be nearly within gun-shot by two P. M.; and as the ships astern were coming up very fast, I determined on bearing down and engaging the two ships and frigate to leeward, hoping to disable one of them before the whole squadron could be brought into action, and thereby effect our escape by getting to leeward of them: at three o'clock I bore up, and steered to pass astern of the sternmost ship, all our steering-sails set on the starboard side, when the enemy tacked and stood toward us: at half-past three, the Indivisible, of eighty guns, bearing rear-admiral Gantheaume's flag, and the Dix Août, of seventy-four guns, being in close order, and within half gunshot of us, opened their fire, which was instantly answered, and a warm action ensued. Their great superiority in point of sailing gave them every advantage of position, and baffled all our attempt to get to leeward of them. At thirty-seven minutes past four, the Jean Bart and

Constitution, of seventy-four guns, being within gun-shot, and closing upon our starboard-quarter very fast, the Indivisible almost on board of us on our larboard-bow, and the Dix Août on our larboard-quarter, our fore-yard and fore-topsail-yard shot away, all our running and part of our standing rigging cut to pieces, the fore-mast, mizen-mast, and main-yard badly wounded, our deck lumbered with the wreck and sails, all hopes of making our escape, or falling in with any succour, cut off, and only one of the enemy's ships apparently much damaged, I thought farther resistance in our crippled state would be exposing the lives of valuable men without any advantage to their country resulting from it; with pain, therefore, I ordered his majesty's colours to be struck, after an action of one hour and seven minutes. Most sincerely, my lord, do I lament our having been opposed to so very superior a force, as, from the steady and gallant conduct of the officers and men I had the honour to command on this occasion, and with whom I had been acting nearly four years on various services, I have not a doubt of what would have been the issue of a contest on more equal terms.

Our loss has been principally in masts, yards, sails, and rigging, having only two men killed, lieutenant Davis, and seven men wounded (two of whom are since dead of their wounds), the enemy's intention being to disable us in our rigging, in which they succeeded too well: at the commencement of this unequal contest, we were eighty-six men short of complement, and had fifty-nine sick, those who returned from the army before Alexandria having introduced a bad fever into the ship. Four hundred men were put on

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board the Swiftsure on the evening of her capture, many of the prison ers removed, and the ship in so crippled a state as to render it ne cessary to take her in tow the next day carpenters and seamen from all the ships were sent on board to repair her damages, and soldiers to complete her number to seven hundred, and with all their exertions, and the advantage of smooth water, it was six days be fore they were able to make sail. On the 4th of July, between Lampidosa and Pantalaria, they fell in with and captured the Mohawk, letter of marque, from Bristol to Malta, laden with various articles of merchandize; on the 22d they anchored in this road, in general very sickly, without having landed

any part of their troops on the coast of Egypt or Barbary, although they attempted a debarkation at Derne, on the 23d ult. : but from the hostile appearance and reception of the natives they did not persevere, and returned to their ships without landinga single person.

I feel it a duty I owe to admiral Gantheaume to mention to your lordship the handsome manner in which we have all been treated by the officers of his squadron, and by him in particular: the strictest orders have been issued to preserve the property of every individual; and he has done every thing in his power to render the situation of the officers and men as comfortable as possible. BEN. HALLOWELL.

The LONDON GENERAL BILL of

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Chriftened Male 840917184. Buried Females 9715

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Decreaf. in Burial this Year 3694.

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Aug. 1. Sir Edmund Carrington, to miss Paulina Belli.

September 1. William Hervey, esq. to lady Dorothea Arabella Primrose.

3. Lord Tara, to miss Powys. 12. Hon. sir Edward Crofton, to lady Charlotte Stewart.

October 8. Rev. sir John Head, bart. to miss Walker.

13. Thomas Wynn, esq. to lady Charlotte Bellasyse.

Sir John Riggs Miller, bart. to miss Beauchamp.

14. Lieutenaut-col. Cockburn, to the hon. Marianna Devereux. 17. Sir John Murray, bart. to miss Callender.

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Sir John Arundel, to miss A. Gore.

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20. Hon. colonel W. Fitzroy, to miss Clarke.

28. Captain Adam Drummond, to lady Charlotte Menzies.

June 3. Hon. Francis Nathaniel Barton, to the hon., Valentina Lawless.

13. Mr. sergeant Onslow, to lady Drake.

17. Lord John Thynne, to miss Mary Anne Master.

20. Joshua Edward Cooper, esq. M. P. to miss Elizabeth Lindsay.

Sir Marcus Somerville, bart. to miss Marianne Meredith. November 5. Right hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, to miss Latouche. 10. George Ellis, esq. M. P. to miss Parker.

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